Beyond The Zulu Principle

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A brand new edition of the classic bestseller

The goal of all investors is to make the maximum possible profit from their investments. 'Beyond The Zulu Principle' shows you how to do this by focusing on growth shares. Jim Slater believes he has discovered a major market anomaly that should enable both private and institutional investors to enjoy exceptional returns in the stockmarket.

A number of important factors are crucial to successful investment. Jim Slater explains how to choose a company operating in the right sector with an advantage over its competitors. He also highlights the importance of directors' dealings, CEO changes, relative strength, cash flow accelerating earnings, and the capacity of some companies to clone their activities.

Simple but enormously effective, the guidance offered here should help readers to make stockmarket profits well beyond the market averages.

Chapter headings for Beyond The Zulu Principle

Acknowledgements
Preface

1. Your Approach to Investment
2. Why Growth Shares
3. What is a Growth Share?
4. Price-Earnings Growth Factors
5. PEGS at Work
6. Cash Flow
7. Relative Strength
8. Management
9. Competitive Advantage
10. Strong Financial Position
11. Accelerating Earnings per Share
12. Other Investment Criteria
13. Your Stockbroker and You
14. Putting it all Together
15. Portfolio Management
16. Bull and Bear Markets
17. Technology Stocks
18. Cyclical Stocks
19. Recommended Reading
20. Summary

Appendix
Index

About Jim Slater

Jim Slater trained as an accountant. He first became interested in investment in the sixties, while a director at a British Leyland subsidiary. After publicising his methods via a column in The Sunday Telegraph, he launched the investment conglomerate Slater Walker, which he chaired until 1973. The company was known for its aggressive acquisitions in every area from banking to property. It collapsed in the 1973-4 recession, leaving Slater bankrupt to the tune of about £4m in today's money. He fought his way back to prosperity through private property deals and writing for small investors. In 1990, he published his main work, The Zulu Principle. This popularised the use of a financial ratio devised in America, known as the PEG, or Price:Earnings Growth Ratio. He has since devised a monthly publication called Company REFS (Really Essential Financial Statistics), which helps investors to apply his system by listing PEGs and other key ratios and information on all UK companies. Now living in Surrey, but far from retired, he is still very active in educating investors through his books and lectures. He is also a very active investor and a substantial shareholder in a number of public companies.

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